[tlbuild] MSYS2/MinGW-w64 port?

[luigi scarso]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 10:22 AM Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0 at libero.it>
wrote:

> Konstantin Podsvirov wrote:
>
> > See also [3] and [4].
> >
> > [4]: https://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2015q3/003317.html
> >
>
> Luigi Scarso wrote:
>
> > Last year i have cross-compiled texlive from ubuntu 18.04 LTS  to
> > mingw64, see https://gitlab.com/luigiScarso/texlive-mingw64
>
> Why then, TL team does not add this as new port for TL2021, for example?
>
>
Basically,  the current win32 works  for 32bit *and* 64bit, it's compiled
with the MS compiler,
it's well tested,  stabled and maintained (see http://www.w32tex.org) all
over the year.
No reason to change.

On the other hand, texlive-mingw64 works only  with  win 64bit and   I have
not time to maintain it as it should.
It's true that it's easy (almost...) to build it  from the texlive sources;
if actively supported I guess that it could be  a link
https://tug.org/texlive

-- 
luigi
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